Brother Donggong

The Third Highness, Yu Lan, was recently conferred the title of Prince Jia, his annual salary was doubled, and he got a new big house.This compound is located in the west city of Yongjing. It was originally the official residence of a king of the opposite sex. The carved beams and painted buildings are exquisite and transparent.

A large area of ​​water, a garden like a lost city, plus a long, long bridge.

The most interesting thing is that a stage was built in the well-proportioned courtyard, which was built by the previous owner of the house.

It is said that there was a catastrophe in the year when the platform was built, and many victims flooded into Yongjing City. The household department used money to relieve the disaster, set up porridge sheds, and distributed gruel. There were so many people that they almost squeezed out their lives.At that time, the prince with a different surname took out his savings and recruited refugees to repair the stage.Those who know how to do handicrafts carve wood, those who have repaired tile-roofed houses build frames, and those who know nothing can move bricks.Everyone can have a bowl of rice every day.

The stage was repaired very slowly and carefully.Those wooden stakes were driven, and even Yongjing's good deed Wang Sun Gongzi jokingly called this stage a "ten thousand years foundation".The stage was set up, the famine was over, the prince with a different surname died, and he had no son to inherit the title, so his fief was divided among the common people, and the mansion was given to others by the emperor. Many years later, that Someone else's house was ransacked, so the mansion was given to another person, and then, the descendants of the other person did not keep the mansion, so after going around and around, it came into Yulan's hands.

The Lingering Garden built by Cui Bicheng in the west city of Yongjing is right next to it.

Originally, Old Cui wanted to buy this compound, but he also spent money and begged for help. In the end, he invited the great monk who invited me to eat dog meat from Jialan Temple to come and have a look, but the great monk said nothing. Just took one look and left.Lao Cui immediately decided not to buy this house.He himself circled a piece of land next to the mansion and built the current Lingering Garden.

Yu Lan became the prince, and coupled with the great joy of housewarming, she held a church meeting in her mansion.

Today happens to be the 23rd of the first lunar month. It has just passed the fifteenth day, and the first month has not yet come out. Let's make a fuss all night together.

I came over for a drink after receiving the invitation. As soon as I arrived, I saw that Chu Qiangsheng was there, Cui Bicheng was there, Young Master Du was there, even the chief eunuch Yang Chun, who was in charge of ceremonies, was there, and there were many civil servants in the court.

The drama has not yet begun.

People are scattered in the yard, drinking, reciting poems, and having fun.

The garden is layered upon layer upon layer. Although it is midwinter, fire dragons are buried all around, making it very warm, and several clumps of plum blossoms have bloomed.Many of those civil servants came from two-ranked Jinshi. Facing delicious food, handsome servants, and beautiful maids, they were proficient in sour prose and prose, reciting profane poems.

I won't be.

I don’t understand those limited rhymes, word cards, and meter. What’s more, those literati like to use uncommon words when they write poems. I can’t understand what they are saying, even if I bring them over. Careful face-to-face, those words are also they know me, I don't know them.

Fortunately, this place is big, and I don't want to stay with those people, so I naturally have another place to stay.

I sat cross-legged on the pavilion on the top of the rockery, with a small stove next to it.

Standing there, Chu Qiangsheng was looking into the distance, not knowing what he was planning in that extremely intelligent head.

Du Yuchan was cooking wine. He used peach blossoms, lotus flowers wiped down last spring and summer and carefully preserved, as well as honey cut in the wild to cook the jar of rice wine.

Cucumbers were grilled with venison and fresh fish, and Lao Cui went out to move wine jars.

I didn't dare to get close to Du Yuchan, I was afraid he would ask me about the recent situation of the concubine Chu, but fortunately, he didn't ask a single word.

Chu Qiangsheng and Du Yuchan kept the farthest distance they could.And today Chu Qiangsheng didn't drink a sip of wine, he only drank a few sips of tea made by cucumber.

In fact, if he didn't like to see Du Yuchan, he didn't have to come, but he seemed to have something to say and came here, but until now, he still didn't say anything.

Oh, by the way, I didn't see Pei Tan today either.

I was holding a wooden tray, which contained several red bean shortbread, and I ate it with relish.

"Hey, what are you looking at?"

Lao Cui walked along the gravel path with two mud-covered wine jars in his arms.

I licked the crumbs on my fingers, then pointed to the people below and said, "I said, those old ladies in brocade skirts are the mothers of Yang Chun, the chief eunuch of Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies? How can I look at that?" Is she so familiar? I seem to have seen her somewhere? Besides, Yang Chun is from Shanxi, and her mother looks like someone from Jianghuai."

Old Cui handed the wine to Du Yuchan, then leaned out to look while leaning on the railing with both hands, "Tsk tsk, isn't this bitch the former bustard of Liunian Pavilion in Guanzhilou? What's the matter? After she was purged and left the house, I thought she was going to be an aunt for some family, or begging for food, who would have thought that this woman is capable, but no, she went to be a mother for a powerful eunuch."

Cucumber was puzzled, "Impossible! Guanzhi Building only sells male sex, all men, so where can a woman be a bustard?"

I slapped my head, "Yes! Yes! Yes! I remembered! Guanzhi Building used to have a Liunian Pavilion, with women in it, and its business was no different from that of ordinary brothels. Later, some of those girls were sold to other yards, some were redeemed by others, or they were asked to redeem themselves to do business elsewhere.”

I asked Cui Bicheng, "Old Cui, this mother Yang Chun is not relative, is she?"

Cui Bicheng laughed, "Nonsense, everyone knows this. Eunuch Yang's mother is not relative. After Yang Chun became rich a few years ago, he once sent someone back to his hometown to find his mother. At that time, his subordinates brought him a beggar woman." My son, his front teeth are gone, he looks black and ugly, but he actually looks like Yang Chun. Eunuch Yang himself looks handsome, and he felt ashamed of an ugly woman, so he kicked that woman out , who would have thought where he found a woman to be his wife."

Du Yuchan frowned, and said, "These people's minds are really hard to fathom."

Even Chu Qiangsheng, who was looking into the distance, looked back at us rarely. I asked Cucumber to bring him another pot of hot tea, and added two pieces of charcoal to the hand warmer in his hand.

Cui Bicheng picked up a piece of venison from the iron net in front of the cucumber with his fingers, and it was fun to eat it, "That's why I said, eunuchs are... what."

I kicked him.

He hates the eunuch's attention to detail, and must not let others know.

I said, "Cucumber, I can tell you that if you become well-off in the future, don't learn from Yang Chun, let your mother refuse to support you, but find a coquettish old bustard to be filial to you, and be careful that you will find your lifeblood." If you don’t come back, you won’t be able to bury them all in the future, so I won’t help you.”

"Look at what the prince said." Cucumber picked up a piece of venison with chopsticks and put it in my mouth. He said, "You all know that this servant is the most kind and honest person. The little I have earned all these years All the money was taken back to my hometown to build a house for my servant’s parents. The eldest brother of this servant gave birth to a litter of boys, and he agreed to adopt a son for this servant to raise a dragon until his death.”

"Yo! Good life!"

While chewing, I said, "Old Cui, when you get married and have a family of boys, I'll wrap you a big red envelope, and remember to adopt a son for me when the time comes."

Old Cui ate it with great joy, "I don't dare, you should give birth to yourself."

I replied, "That will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey."

Cui Bicheng was quiet for a while, and then said, "How did I hear that Empress Cui has already told you about this matter? Oh, I haven't congratulated the prince yet! This time my aunt has become a concubine, and she is favored by the emperor. It's really smoke rising from our ancestral graves. Auntie is lucky this time. In the future, she may be rewarded by the emperor. It would be nice to be a concubine. I said, lord, if my father has the ability of aunt , and it’s not like he will only be a seventh-rank county magistrate in the past 15 years, and he might even be a prefect.”

I patted him, "Come on, with your father and my uncle's ability, being a county magistrate is a blessing. There is food and drink, and the household department also sends 20 taels of money to buy pork and sesame oil during the holidays. It's so good." Where can I find it in the world?!"

"20 taels..."

Old Cui curled his lips, "Humph, that's what I paid for his robes during the Chinese New Year. Oh, let's not talk about him, I almost confused you and forgot the business. My mother's favorite person is a girl from Cui Jiu's family That Cui Jiu is my semicolon shopkeeper, he is shrewd and down-to-earth, I have never met his girl, but according to my mother, she is beautiful and cooks delicious food."

"The pickles she makes are delicious, and your mother loves them." I patted Cui Bicheng on the shoulder, "It seems that your mother likes her very much. She originally wanted to marry you, but then she thought that this girl is too good to be a good match." You are so spoiled, so you want to give this girl to me again. I thought, if your mother likes it, she will definitely not embarrass her, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are harmonious, everything will prosper, just marry you."

Cui Bicheng curled his lips, "You don't need to take care of my affairs. What do you mean, my lord, just because you don't like it?"

I didn't answer.

Cui Bicheng leaned over and whispered, "It's okay if you don't like this. I have something else. How about Pei Su, the younger sister of Supervisor Pei Zi?"

I turned my face away and looked at Cui Bicheng, but what Cui Bicheng said was very serious, not like a joke.

"Pei Zi? The third cousin of Jingyuanhou Pei Tan?"

Cui Bicheng nodded, "Yes, that's him."

I pouted, "My relationship with Pei Tan is not very good."

"It's okay, the relationship between Pei Zi and that Marquis Pei is not very good. If you become in-laws, then you can drink together and make arrangements for Marquis Pei."

I said, "I haven't seen that girl yet."

Old Cui, "Don't worry, I've seen his brother, he looks like you like."

Me, "Do you know what I like again?"

Cui Bicheng said, "Pei Zi looks a little like a prince."

……

After a while, Old Cui said, "Why don't you talk anymore?"

I suddenly grabbed him by the collar and pulled him outside the pavilion to talk, "How much do you know about me and the prince?"

Cui Bicheng looked innocent, "Why do you ask that?"

Me, "How much do outsiders know about me and him?"

He doesn't speak.

I suddenly felt like I was being stupid with this question.

Seeing that he didn't speak, I thought that there would be no good results. I finally said, "Does my mother know? I only care about whether she knows. As for others, I don't care."

I was about to turn around and go back to the gazebo, when Old Cui suddenly said, "Don't worry, I didn't answer just now because the answer I knew was bad, but the matter was so complicated that I didn't know what to say. Hey, don't worry, I told you You, the good things between you and the prince, in fact, the whole world knows..."

Hearing this, my feet slipped and I almost rolled down the mountain with a gurgling sound.